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Has anyone else experienced any issues printing to Xerox printers? In particular everything prints except the object lines?

When I add a dimension to a drawing the dimension name is showing up in parenthesis below the value. Can someone please help and tell me how to turn this off? SolidWorks 2008 SP2.1 Thanks.

Is there an easy way to make the standard holes call outs to place the qty at the end of the call out by default and add parenthasis?

Does anyone know where I can get a prgm that will generate and Excel BOM without opening the assembly?

I have started at a new company and it is more sheet metal based than where I was at before. with that being said, we are experiencing some issues with the trying to create the flat pattern on the detail drawings. We have designers and detailers and the designers do not want to give the...

How do you wrap a sketch and have it cut through with out a tappered hole? I have a pipe I need to place a cam-lock onto. The cut needs to be straight. I have done this before SW2006 but I am banging my head trying to figure out how to do it again. The slot starts at 90 degree then goes...

Just received a new system and looking for advice on settings that will help get the most out of what has been purchased. System: HP xw4300 3.4 Ghz P4 H/T Nvidea Quadro FX4500 512mb 2gb Kingston 4200 Ram Win2000 Dual Monitors In particular I am looking for optimal settings for the video card...

We have our toolbox setup to be shared across the network. The reason we did this is we have custom properties that we need to add for each fastner that we use. Our problem is the configurations seem to be getting deleted somehow and we can not figure out why. All the files are set to read...

Could someone please explain to me why you can not place an ordinate dimension from an AltPosView to a normal view? Is this as setting issue or just a fact that the program will not allow you to do this?

We are required to dimension our holes on a broken out cross section. Is there anyway to make SW05 create the same style call out that is created from the hole call out selection? Right now for tapped holes it places M8 for a tapped hole. Nothing to say if it's fine or course thread. Thanks in...

I have two questions about SWBOM's 1. How do you control the size of the BOM? I have been able to change the text size and save that to a template. But when I change column or row width/height they do not get saved with the template. How do I accomplish this? 2. How do I change the color of...

Will the /3GB switch work in Windows 2000 ?

I am looking for information pertaining to the compatability of Inventor with SolidWorks. 1. Can you open native SW files in Inventor? 2. If not what format works best? 3. Can you access features when importing files? (similiar to featureworks in SW.) Thanks ahead of time for everyones...

Ok this was just persented to me and I can't figure it out. You manually put a center mark or a center line into a drawing. Then you right click the centerline or center mark and selct hide...How do you unhide these annotations? The centerline has to be put in thru the annotations menu...

I have looked through everything already posted about equations and failed to locate anything similiar to my situation so here it is. I am trying to create a standard frame base assembly using equations to drive the lengths of the frame members, so basicly the user only inputs length, height...

I am a Solidworks user trying to understand a little more abut Inventor. I can not find anything about the file structure for Inventor. is this similiar to Solidworks where you have Assemblie, parts and drawings and you have external reference to from one to the other. The assembly needs to be...

I am having trouble with my system crashing to desktop when i try to insert a slot from the Palette Feature menu. Anyone else having the same problems? Just installed SW2005 SP02

Is there anyway to delete an assembly and all it's components from a directory in one shot? I have a sub-assembly that I now longer need and I would like to delete it and all referenced parts that belong to that sub-assembly. Can I do this across the board or am I going to have to delete...

I need to rename and relocate my vendor parts library. Can anyone offer any advise to the best way to do this. My current problem is that there are multiple files of the same vendor parts with configurations and I would like to consilidate all variations into one file. Thanks, Dale

I have an issue concerning creating details from an alternate section veiw. The section view is created say at 12:00 and 3:00 alignment. Everything on it looks fine. I create a detail circle and view scaled up so I can see the components and it will not allow me to dimension some of the edges on...